We have been working indirectly with Google through one of their partners and had an arrangement where they would send us search ads via a masked ip address. In this way, your privacy was protected. To get search ads from Google, Google forced us not to mention the words “Google” or “Chrome” in our web page. They didn’t ask us to delete any content in our web page, but they forbade us from using the words “Google” or “Chrome”. Not being able to reference “Chrome” debilitated us, since we’re not able to explain how we’re similar to and how we’re different from Chrome. If you look closely at our current home page, you’ll notice a number of things read a bit odd. Google did other things including forbidding us from having “images” on our search page link to Google’s images or “videos” link to YouTube. That was particularly ironic for a company whose entire service depends on linking to other websites.

A few months ago Google for no particular reason insisted that we send our users’ actual IP address. When we refused, they cut us off. Rather than allow you to be tracked, we cut off our only revenue source.

Google has informally stopped licensing search ads to new browsers — this forced us to retain the name Epic (we had another incarnation of Epic with a different focus) which created many problems including a threatened lawsuit for us.

If the Google Search Advertising business were a stand-alone business, it’s unlikely that it would hesitate to work with other web browsers. This is not unlike Microsoft’s leveraging its OS to gain dominance in the browser market which was a very successful strategy. We have brought this to the FTC’s attention.

i think epic is going to be THE BROWSER of the future;cuz 2 b rather honest ; ALL POEPLE L O V E THEIR PRIVACY; AS THE OTHER BROWSERS & COMPANIES LOVES THIEIR PERSONAL PRIVACY ….. SO DO WE AS HUMAN BIENGS. CUZ HOW DO WE KNOW .IF WHT THEY SAY THEY;THEY DO WITH OUR INFO RMATION R AS IN 100% TRUTH AS WHT IS INDEED INTENDED BY THEIR WRITTEN POLICIES. WHEN EVER SOME ONE THREATENS YOU;THEIR IS FEAR INVOLVED AFEAR OF SOMETHING . EPIC DID NOT THREAHTEN ANY BODY ; SO WWWW HHHHHHHH…YYYYYYYYYYY ARE EPIC THREATEND. WHY R EPIC A C T U A L Y ….. SEEM 2 B A THREAT TO SOME BROWSERS AND NOT TO THE POEPLE; EPIC KNOWS WHAT POEPLE ARE !!!!! ITS REALY A BROWSER FOR THE P O E P L E ! GARANTEED! POEPLE R PRIVATE IN NATURE; ; POEPLE ARE GOING 2 START TO HAER ABOUT EPIC , IF THAT IS GOING TO SPARK. S O O N THE WHOLE WORLD WILL B ON FIRE. AND IM TELLING U THAT WHT IM UTTERING 2DAY ; IS GONNA HAPPEN ; G A R A N T E E D.

The U.S has always been a bully.
Its that Nordic, Roman, Germnic, European.
They have that attached of “I must control everyone and everything”
Good Luck Alok Bhardwaj.
Google employees are 30% Indian.

you guyz created an amazing browser by which millions of users browse ad free. zero tracking website. just try to popularize it like yahoo and its search engine etc
definitely i’ll donate for this privacy. you guyz are amazing. i promoted so many people to use epic privacy browser as there is zero ads we can see without doing any setting changes. auto disabled, nice work guyz.

i urge to my fellow nation mates please donate to grow. at least one dollar for your privacy. without helping dont blame that our men can’t do or create a powerful tool for our ease like other countries. see the monopoly of apple, google etc etc…

Yes, it really is enjoyable to search w/o the targeted ads. Somehow I also feel more comfortable. With Chrome and Firefox, I almost thought thru everything I wanted to search, conscious that it was going into some sort of history that was being used to profile me. When I found about “offline data” and how companies were storing and retrieving data from MY browser, I freaked out. Now I’m free from all that. Thanks, Epic.

But can we trust you? You said “no” to Google this time. Will money pressures finally get too great? What about law enforcement or intelligence agencies?

to all my fellow epic privacy users i urge you to share this thing as much as you can from you tube videos to all social networking sites so that more and more people can contribute to help grow our national browser. i’m using it from 2011 end till now. experience is awsome till today. as i don’t want any ads any spam any pop ups etc and for other hidden things which will track us sell our data to other giants and companies. as promised by epic they stand for it truely. so help it to protect your privacy. now we are helping it grow later we can complain about any mistakes done by epic in future.

to all my fellow epic privacy users i urge you to share this thing as much as you can from you tube videos to all social networking sites so that more and more people can contribute to help grow our national browser. i’m using it from 2011 end till now. experience is awsome till today. as i don’t want any ads any spam any pop ups etc and for other hidden things which will track us sell our data to other giants and companies. as promised by epic they stand for it truely. so help it to protect your privacy. now we are helping it grow later we can complain about any mistakes done by epic in future.
and i donated for it.

recently, me and some other people in a mozilla firefox support forum were wondering why there was a google.com cookie we couldn’t delete prevent or get rid of, except manually and for a few seconds – i think i’ve found the answer! Well, i forgive mozilla, firefox is on it’s way out (pity, i still love it best – chrome browsers crash constantly and can’t handle flash without crashing) (don’t bother advise me, i think this falls into the category of random life experiences that are consistent across one person’s whole life yet no other people) so they’re going to go bankrupt soon unless something good happens and must be desperate. But it does mean i need to use Epic a lot too

For a long time I have been useing Google, but since all the snoopy and spy things got exposed, I have got seriusly and very tied of using there services. And as god i heaven, and out of the blue Epic Privacy Browser came along, and haleluja that is exatly the answer to our prayers, this is what we longing and need for in theese strange days.

I hope you people behind the sceene, has the strengt and efforts to stand up against the tide, to protect every mans right to have some privacy when using the net.

You folks are doing a great service. I have really been starting to worry about privacy its apparent we have less by the day. It appears google is blocking sound from some youtube videos when accessed through EPIC.

I did open this video and the only sound i hear is very bad and I have opended via EPIC! I also opened it via google and is the sound is as normal as expected.
I want To sue Google and make sure that GOOGLE will STOP forcing Epic to make USERS like me being tracked. I will do a lot to make sure Google STOPS TRACKING US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. And that video is’n the only one.
I have here another video that GOOGLE blocks when accesed via EPIC.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ7PbRdttBI
(copy this link into the web-bar on top of here in EPIC and you’ll see that also this video works fine in all other browsers)

Yes that is so true!! I had chalked it up to a bug of some sort, but that has been happening for months!!! That is some underhanded dirty pool. This should be included in any complaints/suits you bring for sure Epic.

How much money a year do you need to support the browser?
A kickstarter or similar campaign?
Right now, it’s harder to donate not knowing your capital needs. I’d like to support you, just want some additional information.

You can use G**gle and Chr*me instead of their trademarks (I believe you can). Hyperlink these to the the copy of correspondence between you and G**gle.

I don’t think Google has copyrights or trademarks over that. If Google has trademarks over asteriks version then you can use zero or any damn symbol, or simply try other variations (G***le, G–gle, etc).

For logos, you can use crude images that you draw yourself instead of their official logos. Hyperlink these to the letters as well, explaining clearly why you are using them.

You can use G**gle and Chr*me instead of their trademarks (I believe you can). Hyperlink these to the the copy of correspondence between you and G**gle.

I don’t think Google has copyrights or trademarks over that. If Google has trademarks over asteriks version then you can use zero or any damn symbol, or simply try other variations (G***le, G–gle, etc).

For logos, you can use crude images that you draw yourself instead of their official logos. Hyperlink these to the letters as well, explaining clearly why you are using them.

Google’s policy change may be related to their new service known as “Google Contributor”, which will providing ad free surfing and will cost you between $1 to $3 per month or $12 to $36 per year but may only apply to Google content. Epic will do this for free for all ads. Thank you Google for quantifying the real value of Epic to its users. We really need to get Epic on a stable financial footing!

I think your days with mozilla were better
You were doing good at that time with mozilla
But when you switched over to chrome
I thought it was all finished
Even anticipated this
So i would request you to turn your project to mozilla
And now firefox has really changed all these years
Hope you understand

Great service you made with this Epic-browser!
Google is my enemy!!! Every time I check a simple thing like trainwheel they will open 40 ads with things like trains, model-traincars, and other STUPID THINGS!!!!!!! I HATE THAT!!!!!!!
this epic It’s the the best thing ever!!!!!!!

Great work guys.. Its so refreshing to see an ad-free and no-tracking experience.. I was being bugged with ads based on what i had searched on Flipkart etc using Chrome. Proud to be using a browser designed by Indians… Keep rocking!!

I would like to contribute some funds to your organization. How do I do that. I am fed up with Internet Explorer and Google Crome. You are like a breath of fresh air Keep up the good work. I read about Epic Browser in an article in April 2014 Issue of Vogue Magazine. Glad i did. I have one problem. Is there some way to confidentially retain my sign in info to my on line goggle and yahoo Email accounts. Right now I have to type both the email address and the password ever time I sign in. I do NOT want any virus guys to get this info. , just want to make it easier to log in. HELP!

If you use Epic to log on to facebook or Gmail. you will be locked out as a hacker.
Once you have past the security protocols, you can use it as normal.
I would open up a new account using Epic and link yourself to it.
Remember to look up your I.P address first, to get the info you need for Google Mail, Twitter & YouTube.
Tick Epic save my password
All Links still works fine.
Good luck
Alok Bhardwaj
P.S you can still use Torrents with Epic

Great browser I became aware of accidentally just a few weeks ago over an IT site here in Germany . It also seems you have a problem with anti-virus industry too. I had to deactivate Avast before I could install epic. Keep up the fight!

Hi Jim, For usability, we found users hated it and Flash is still widely used (for legitimate purposes). If you’re concerned about IP protection, as we recommend in the FAQ, definitely set plugins to click-to-play!

You guys are awesome. After I heard about NSA snoopgate from Edward Snowden, I refused to let myself trust google & facebook. I agree that these companies have done good for the internet, but that does give them the right to bug my profile and commoditize my opinions. My whole internet history, my online shopping, my videos surfing, all these are regularly profiled and this make me angry.

Epic Search works most of the time. I have experienced some WEB sites that demand to know where I am located, refused to honor Epic Search, just would not function. I used Mozilla Firefox and everything worked smoothly. It appears to me that there is a growing resistance to the use of Epic Search. Today, right now, my bank’s sign on is rejecting Epic Search. The WEB site is refusing to honor my User Code/password. Rejecting them, refusing to let me have access to my accounts. Just keeps returning to the USER CODE WEB page. No warning message. Account does not lock up. It is just ignoring Epic Search. I called the bank. They said the site is working properly. BAD for EPIC SEARCH.

I am new to using Epic, and no longer am I in the dark as far as google tracking me and selling my information to whatever company their in partnership with at any certain time. Now I know why when I used to use Chrome trying to book a flight always took me to the airline in partnership with. I’m not mentioning any retail giant names but we all know without a doubt who and what I am talking about. I have always had pride of our freedom. Now giants like google is the start of shame, shame on you google. How could I have been so blind for so long. Google and its greed are everywhere and have their hands in everything. Shame, shame, shame on you google. Whatever I can help Epic out with I will do what I can.

The performance is EPIC is really good when you compare with market leaders like google and mozilla. I just love browsing using epic as it takes care of all the annoying adds and the one click proxy global option is just mind blowing. I wonder why I was using Hotspot Shield and other VPN’s when I had the inbuilt option in EPIC. Kudos to EPIC Team !! I wish you success and may your company come up with android and ios mobile browsers especially for India !!

Facebook may ask for extra authentication if you’re using Epic with the proxy on. This is because Epic’s working so you’re actually hidden from Facebook ! It does require you to enter in a bit more authentication details but your security & privacy are worth it !

I have been tweetin about Epic for the past 24 hours on twitter, using Epic.
Epic still works if you’ve saved things in your browser.
GOOD LUCK Alok Bhardwaj
Digger ‏@mindcontrals/twitter
Google vs India
Epic एकांत ब्राउज़र है नीचे आक्रमण द्वारा Google
होगा गांधी बैठना वापस और let it मरना
Epic privacy browser is a assit to India
How Google Crushed a Indian owned Web- Browser
@PMOIndia, @Twitter India, @airindiain, @boxofficeindia even Google India.
Google made $49 billion last year
If Epic made only 10% of that
30% of Google employees are Indian 60% Nordic Germanic European or White
2% African descendants or Black
After all that = http://www.khoj.com/ will let you use Epic. It also changes your I’P Address.
We need to all tweet Epic and make it the numuer one web-browser.
Once its gone, its gone for ever, like Betamax vs V.H.S videos, now both a thing of the past.
P.S “I even tweeted Epic to Barack Obama” on twitter.

Well,
I’m happy that you have this privacy-browser.
But, when I will try to visit my favorite website, They tell me that this is blocked and the only way to open it is via Google or allowing The losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
called ‘Google’ or Chrome to track me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they do block the whole internet for EPIC.
I will call my best friends to tell them they have to attack Google or Chrome (or both) with the best D-dos or HOAX-attack they have!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Guys,
People need to listen up and donate, I know I did.
I value my privacy and this is the only way I’m going to get it unless I go to something that will be expensive or get on a special linux distro.
Thanks

I’ve used Epic for a year or to now. I love using Epic. Thank you all for yor good work
It says “No one actually owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety. The Internet is more of a concept than an actual tangible entity, and it relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks”.
So WHY IS GOOGLE SO HELL BENT ON CONTROLLING IT and US.
Google = onlinemovies.is/unbroken-2014 Blocked
Epic = onlinemovies.is/unbroken-2014 Not Blocked

From the Business Insider story, it appears – google’s request is genuine. Sure you admins know it better though. Google – to avoid – search requests being anonymous – it cannot distinguish with robot requests. What you guys have to say?

Google has supported privacy-protecting implementations for years. We still do pass on some IP data as well as search queries so weeding out robots is not impeded at all. It isn’t an issue with robot requests, it’s a privacy issue.

Thanks for the great product and service. I am glad to donate to you guys than donating to any other browser who don’t care about privacy. Can anyone let me know how is the privacy with email communication? which is the best email service provider? Because I don’t like gmail anymore. whenever I sign in to my gmail account, it without my permissions signs me in to all the google services, which I really hate.
Thanks again.

Team of Epic browser Thanks for creating a epic browser.But just try to popularize it like chrome,opera,safari,Uc Browser etc.
please upload the exe. file of epic browser in fiilehippo.com ,so that people would come to know about this browser.

Hi Reiner, great, thanks!!!! Btw, Opera seems to be copying us…integrating a proxy into their browser (they mistakenly and misleadingly call it a VPN) and now blocking webrtc calls to protect your IP…better to stick with the original privacy browser .

hello sir , I am an engineering student in computer science and i would like to learn and work with you if in case you try to make an android application for your browser application .such applications are much needed in today’s world with the highest number of android users worldwide.
Thank-You .

Can we get an update of where things stand at the moment with Epic?
Can you make us aware of your current state financial and otherwise technical? Have you give in to Google demands?
Can you work with the help of Ixquick and DuckDuckGo? What is the problem with this?
I just want to know more and if possible help with a little money even though I’m a full time volunteer an I don’t have an income. Maybe I can help with some graphic design or some basic coding or research or other intelligent work.
I want you to win against the suppression from the powerful dark side of the force.

We have not given in to Google’s demands!! Thanks, we could definitely use a lot of help with design, coding and research, please write our founder Alok (alok at hiddenreflex dot com). We unfortunately are unable to trust DuckDuckGo — we have reached out to them many, many times. They don’t meet our standards for privacy or transparency so we outright do not and can not trust them nor their privacy.

Ixquick (a.k.a. Start) is now using Google’s protocols for maximum search deliveries that supposedly other search engines cannot, claims they are still private, but assume Google’s biases for weblinks you see in a search. I don’t want to be spoonfed by Google in any form.

Uh I can understand them telling you not to use google, But chrome they have no right saying you can’t use it! Google must have a huge head now! Chrome is the free open source that google uses for their browser, Not something they own rights to!

Hi Blair, we have no problems using the open source Chromium, but we had a partnership on private search which Google has killed. They seem to want private search dead on birth…sadly…we wish they’d support consumer choice.

I’m really glad I found Epic browser. Huge thanks to you guys for taking privacy seriously. Although, I’m not sure if you noticed – but google analytics (and google ip) has been getting through the last couple of days. Little Snitch picked it up, and I’ve been able to block that way. But it seems Google has found a backdoor through epic now. :/

What about WebRTC ? You need to check webRTC enabled sites, visit ipleak.net , it’ll let you know if your VPN is leaking webRTC IP address, It is a fact that the WebRTC API’s can be used to share one’s private IP address(es) without any user consent today. Nefarious websites could potentially use this information to fingerprint individuals who do not want to be tracked. Please stop WebRTC !!!!!

Great post, it’s nice to see you stand up for what you feel is right. I’ve always been a firm believer in supporting software companies that produce a good product – I’d rather pay in dollars that I can count and understand today than give up my privacy to some unknown ends.

I’ve made a donation and will continue to do the same with other open source products I regularly enjoy. I’d encourage others reading to do the same if you are in a position to do so.

Is there any way you can post the email correspondence so have some concrete proof of an a cut off revenue? Also, does this mean all other browsers based on Chromium all have in-built Google Tracking since they don’t seem to have run into the same issue Epic did? Trying to understand this.

Wow. I’ve only heard of your browser today I’ve always just used Google for about 10 years now but reading some of these articles and practices of Google it kind of scares me what information Google has collected in those 10 years. I don’t visit any dodgy sites or any thing like that but still knowing some strangers somewhere are hoarding the names of pets and know what I’m going to have for dinner before even I do is still just as uncomforting.

What really tipped me over the edge is reading this; I had no idea Google were such bullying yobs. That’s practically extortion surely it’s a criminal offence? “Give us the information we want and we’ll make it worth your while, if you don’t you’ll be sleeping with the fishes!” (well, or we’ll just cut your revenue, anyway)

I’m downloading Epic now and give it a try. I have a clean install of Windows so I’ll give Google a wide birth from now on. ;D

To show our support for you we have added epic to our side bar. We hope this helps you in a great way. Thank you for all the hard work and TIME you put into this. We hope and pray it will continue with all the laws changing concerning the internet in America. Again thank you!!!

Sorry, here are some questions from a recently super-paranoid: this story sound just a little bit too convenient, if you know what I mean. And the cutesy mascot saying “We’ll never sell you out” reminds me a lot of Google’s stated motto, “Don’t be evil.” They sound nice, and I want to believe, but I just don’t anymore.

I wish your site and your documentation did more to honor this point of view: don’t *tell* me I should trust you, *show* me why. Epic is based on Chromium .. how can I be sure Chromium doesn’t have back doors? Who are the lead developers, and what motivates them?

The key way to know if you can trust someone is by their action — when Google tried to force us to let you be tracked, we refused. Chromium is a huge codebase which no one has sufficiently reviewed in terms of total security yet and it involves open source projects primarily from Google but also many other developers like Mozilla and others.

Hello! I have a computer that’s infected with viruses, and I’m also quite paranoid of being tracked by larger corporations such as Google. Epic Browser is a godsend- I don’t get any pop-ups, and it’s private, too. I feel safer thanks to Epic!

Hi, and thanks for your great browser. I would like to see an option to donate through Pay Pal, however I am going to donate a few cups of coffee today anyway. Anyone who stands up and say no to the great overlord Google deserves support. It seems as though Google intends to get it’s tentacles into every aspect of your life and once you are in they make it as difficult as possible for you to get out, plus they are dishonest. Thanks again.

This Browser uses Google Public DNS when Proxy is turned on. How is it GoogleProof if you are allowing Google to resolve all the DNS queries? There is technically no way to stop Google. They are unstoppable. I have given up!

Unfortunately no DNS provider is that private or trustworthy. Your DNS is routed there through our encrypted proxy servers. But don’t worry!!! Google is more robust and gets tons of traffic from our servers which is all mixed up so it’s going to be EXTREMELY difficult if not impossible to track anyone. So in terms of the privacy concerns, this isn’t ideal but is a very small issue in the scheme of things. We hope to keep growing so we can one day have our own DNS servers for even more privacy ! We hope to be able to offer private alternatives for a lot of Google services, but we’re not that big yet…

Thank You to the Crew at Epicbrowser.com for all our hard work ‘ and bringing the public
a platform ‘ that gives us back our privacy and our rights ‘ google is the all seeing eye of the internet ‘ i like the way the features are simple and straight forward to use ‘ on Epic ‘
look forward to seeing more outstanding products from you ‘ Cheer’s

ps. if we all stick together in Cyber Matrix of the world ‘ we can give them a run for there money ‘ or servers etc .

Hi all, i have been using Epic for a while an this is really “Epic”, as this browser feels soo good to be safe and no more special words to appreciate than to say it is EPIC. if the speed is increased then this will beat all the browsers. how can i get it for my Android Phone??? shall i download from Play store or by other means??????
Anyone Reply ASAP. Thanks & GUD LUK

Newbie to the awesome Epic browser, i love it already. Great security, fast, even has the ability to reveal who’s tracking/datamining you in your other browsers. These people have the cheek to store info about you on your own rig, smart phone etc, so don’t forget to delete all that sort of stuff with the option in your Internet Security. Definitely will be sending a decent contribution to Epic, more than the price of a coffee a month for sure =) may you prosper at Epic, cheers for your much appreciated efforts.

Guys, a great initiative for an ad-free and private experience. And well done. It’s working quite well on most sites. Keep up the good work. Looking forward also for an iPhone version.
Donation is on its way ….

I’ve been using the Epic browser for about 4 months now. It is intuitive, fast, and has not given me any issues. Epic is currently my default and I have no intentions of going back to Google. I’m not really computer savvy, so I couldn’t figure out how adds for things kept popping up when using Google. Thank you Epic team for educating me.

I have had a Gmail address since Google’s beginning. Not only am I tired of their massive phishing scam, I am really tired of their so called security which is another phishing scam. Now that you’ve come on line with a better browser and search engine I would really like to see you develop secure email and a web hosting service. When you do achieve that goal, I’d love to be a beta tester and good customer. I have been testing Epic against my other browsers and very impressed. Keep my email and keep me informed.
I will be donating and hope for your continued success.